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Nina Auerbach

Nina Auerbach teaches at the University of Pennsylvania; she writes frequently about ghosts, ghostly creatures and vampires.

Selected bibliography

  • Daphne du Maurier: Haunted Heiress (1999)
  • Our Vampires, Ourselves (1995)
  • Private Theatricals: The Lives of the Victorians (1990)
  • Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time (1989)
  • Romantic Imprisonment: Women and Other Glorified Outcasts (1985)
  • Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth (1982)
  • Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction (1978)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content A Hideous Skeleton, with Cries and Dismal Howlings · 24 June 2004

  • Possessions: The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley by Judith Richardson

Vampire to Victim · 19 June 2003

  • Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise by Sally Cline

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Acrimony · 6 July 2000

  • Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century by Susan Gubar